We want to decipher skies and paintings, go behind these starry backgrounds or these painted canvases and, like kids trying to find a gap in a fence, try to look through the cracks in the world.

Literature ... is the rediscovery of childhood.

Eroticism is the approval of life unto death.

Obscenity is our name for the uneasiness which upsets the physical state associated with self-possession, with the possession of a recognized and stable individuality.

To choose evil is to choose freedom, emancipation from all restraint.

The circumstances of my life are paralyzing.

The sacred demands the violation of what is normally the object of terrified respect.